Health Tips for Allergy Shots

HealthNFitness Tips: Allergy shots can provide much-needed relief from watery eyes, runny nose and other allergy symptoms. But the shots aren't for everyone. The American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology says they're not appropriate for Food allergies.Before deciding to begin allergy shots, the academy says you should consider these factors: * The severity of your allergy symptoms. * How long your allergy season lasts. * The effectiveness of antihistamines in treating your allergy symptoms. * Your desire and ability to take antihistamines and other medications...

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High Fiber Foods for a High Fiber Diet

A product or a food can with the words "high fiber" if it have more than 5 grams of fiber per-serving. Benefits of fiber-rich foods are the prevention of weight maintaining, constipation, lowering cholesterol, and more. Read our list of low-fiber foods and replace with the following foods when possibleHigh-fiber foods:Cereal:rolls, Whole wheat bread, muffins, bagelsBran Flakes, All Bran, corn bran , Bran buds, 100%, Bran whole wheat bread Shreddies and Fiber 1Cooked cereals such as oat bran and Red RiverWhole wheat pastaWhole grains such as corn, rice, barley and popcornfruit:Dried fruits...

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Ways to Boost Metabolism

Hello, you want to learn how to increase your metabolism? The number one way you can do is to work. You will need some cardiovascular work. Whether by bike, and came to a local gym, participate in some classes, weight training is always optimal. In addition, some things you can do at the club and the exercise is to eat. Protein is always help increase your metabolism. Protein is the cornerstone of muscle. If you have a tone that always burns for you. One hundred calories a day, at rest, a pound of muscle use. So you can see how that is optimal for burning calories. Protein will always...

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Day 85: Shiny unhappy people

As a warning, if you are looking for a chipper cancer blog, this ain't it. This is a heavy one, and I will not be offended if that turns most people off from reading it. Don't worry, I will keep it together in the long run, but this is where I'm at right now and I need to get it out.Back when I found out I needed a second surgery, I started my blog by saying that this is not the blog I expected to write today. Well, I'm back in the same boat. I was going to update on the many ridiculous things that chemo has brought into my life. On Monday, after I wrote last, my nausea was so bad...

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Cancer Sucks: When Cancer Leads to Abrupt Weaning

When Ari was only seven months old, I was forced to wean him from exclusive and happy breastfeeding when an enlarged milk duct turned out to be cancerous. Due to my age, treatment needed to be swift and aggressive, involving a bilateral mastectomy. One day I breastfed Ari on demand, wore him wrapped tight against my chest, and slept with him skin-to-skin; the next day I mixed bottles of formula to hand over to my husband and moved to the other side of the bed, out of reach.  This sucks, indeed. Thankfully, although she had to wean, Kelly found a new way to remain attached...

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Milk Samples Needed for Breast Cancer Research Study

As I've written before, I have the privelege of working with Professor Kathleen Arcaro at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on her groundbreaking breast cancer/breastmilk research. Kathleen analyses breastmilk to study DNA changes in breast cells, which are naturally present in breastmilk, and their relationship to breast cancer. It's very gratifying work because a better understanding of these patterns may one day lead to new early detection, prevention and treatment strategies for breast cancer. Here's a sampling of some of the recent press coverage about this research. Our...

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